Language, Sexualities and Desires

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Language, Sexualities and Desires

   • Helen Sauntson, Sakis Kyratzis

   Pages 1-16

3. Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond

   • Liz Morrish, William Leap

   Pages 17-40

4. ‘Everyone Was Convinced that We Were Closet Fags’: the Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity

   • Jennifer Coates

   Pages 41-67

5. ‘This Sex Thing Is such a Big Issue now’: Sex Talk and Identities in Three Groups of Adolescent Girls

   • Pia Pichler

   Pages 68-95

6. The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and Sexuality through Metaphor

   • Sakis Kyratzis

   Pages 96-117

7. Queering Language: a Love that Dare not Speak its Name Comes Out of the Closet

   • Yvonne Dröschel

   Pages 118-139

8. Education, Culture and the Construction of Sexual Identity: an appraisal Analysis of Lesbian Coming Out Narratives

   • Helen Sauntson

   Pages 140-164

9. The Transformed Gay Self: the Male Body and its Scenic Presence as Sites of Gay Self-Enunciation

   • Stephan A. Grosse

   Pages 165-184

10. The Subversive Effect of the Signals of Erotic Text Patterning

    • Michael Hoey

    Pages 185-203

11. Going ‘Back to Basics’: Moral Panics about Heterosexual Relationships

    • Lia Litosseliti

    Pages 204-222

12. Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature

    • Deborah A. Chirrey

    Pages 223-244

13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-248

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Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures. This volume addresses how people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships and how membership of specific social groups, based on sexual and lifestyle choices, may be signalled through language.

• body
• construction
• corpus
• culture
• education
• eros
• identity
• language
• literature
• love
• media
• metaphor
• semantic
• semantics
• women

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Helen Sauntson

• Kingston University, UK

  Sakis Kyratzis

DEBORAH A. CHIRREY is a Lecturer in English Language at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Lancashire, UK JENNIFER COATES is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University, UK YVONNE DRÖSCHEL is a Research and Teaching Assistant in English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland STEPHAN A. GROSSE is based in Germany where he is a multilingual researcher and language professional specializing in intercultural communication and foreign language pedagogy MICHAEL HOEY is Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK WILLIAM LEAP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, American University (Washington DC), USA LIA LITOSSELITI is Lecturer in Linguistics at City University, London, UK LIZ MORRISH is Subject Leader of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK PIA PICHLER is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK

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